A patch from Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@…>:
Here is another patch to hopefully enhance rtems' configuration.
Motivation: Try to support other c-compilers besides gcc (I tried to
build rtems under Solaris using sun's WSPro c-compiler).
Here is a couple of small patches concerning the host compiler
configuration, which fix/work-around the worst problems when using sun's
WSPro c-compiler.
Changes:
* Replaced make/compilers/gcc.cfg with make/compilers/gcc.cfg.in, ie.
gcc.cfg is generated by configure now.
* Removed a line containing a hard-coded "gcc" from gcc.cfg (BUG-fix).
* Add -g to host compiler flags only if configure reported -g to work
* Add -Wall to host compiler flags only if configure reported that the
host compiler is gcc (WSPro's cc chokes on -Wall).
* Some modifications to make/Makefile.in
* Adapted make/custom/default.cfg to the new location of gcc.cfg
BTW, gcc.cfg/gcc.cfg.in seems to be full of unused code (DEBUG-VARIANTS
etc.) which deserves to be cleaned up, IMO.
IMO, a similar patch should be applied to gcc-target-default.cfg

Patch from Eric Valette <valette@…>:
Here is a patch that enables to catch exception
and get message before crashing RTEMS :)
It should be generic to any Intel port although enabled
only for pc386 BSP...
[Joel] I fixed the bug I introduced in irq_asm.s…

Fix from Eric Norum <eric@…>:
"Thomas Doerfler" <td@…> wrote:
>
> While implementing/testing the console/termios support for
> PPC403 in RTEMS-4.0.0-beta3, I am stuck at a certain location in
> termios.c:
>
> During "rtems_termios_initialize", the main control data structure
> "*tty" is allocated using malloc(). (Note, that malloc does not
> clear the allocated memory and my BSP does not clear memory during
> startup). Furtheron, a lot of fields of that structure are
> initialized, but the field "rawOutBufState" is not, and therefore
> keeps an arbitrary contents.
>
> When "osend()" is called the first time(with the serial device
> driver working in interrupt mode), termios gets stuck and will not
> call the device drivers output function.
>
> My questions now are:
>
> - anybody already experienced this bug?
> - is it a bug at all or did I do anything fundamentally wrong?
> - is there already a common bugfix for that?
>
> I don't like poking around in other people code, as long as I am
> not absolutely sure, what I do...
Yes, there's a bug there.
I thought that Joel had patched this already, but here's a patch to
fix this. This patch also addresses a concern that many others have
raised regarding enabling and disabling of transmitter interrupts.
First, here's the example I've been using of a simple UART-style
interrupt-driven driver:
===============================================================
void
device_write_routine (int minor, char *buf, int count)
{
UART->control_register &= ~UART_TRANSMITTER_READY;
UART->output_register = *buf;
UART->control_register |= UART_TRANSMIT_INTERRUPT_ENABLE;
}
void
device_transmit_interrupt_routine (int vector)
{
UART->control_register &= ~UART_TRANSMIT_INTERRUPT_ENABLE;
rtems_termios_dequeue_characters (device_ttyp, 1);
}
==============================================================
Several people have expressed their concern about the disable/enable
of transmitter interrupts for every character. On some machines
this disable/enable is an expensive operation. With the attached
patch applied you can write the two routines as:
==============================================================
void
device_write_routine (int minor, char *buf, int count)
{
code_to_clear_transmitter_ready_status ();
if (device_ttyp->rawOutBufState == rob_idle)
code_to_enable_transmitter_interrupts ();
code_to_send_one_character_to_transmitter (*buf);
}
void
device_transmit_interrupt_routine (int vector)
{
rtems_termios_dequeue_characters (device_ttyp, 1);
if (device_ttyp->rawOutBufState == rob_idle)
code_to_disable_transmitter_interrupts ();
}
===============================================================

Patch from Eric Valette <valette@…>:
- Use the "hlt" instruction for the Idle thread,
- Optimise interrupt PATH leadding to thread wakeup,
- Preparation for Intel exception management that should
come before the end of the week…

Patch from Aleksey <qqi@…>:
This patch has same changes as one I sent to you earlier plus
it fixes _heap_size problem for pc386 we had discussed earlier.
Now, _heap_size is defined and set to 0 in pc386/startup/bspstart.c
It can be patched to desireable value in binary image. If it is
left unpatched, then startup code will determine size of memory
(on the assumption that at least 2MB are present) and use
max possible heap.

Patches from Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@…> and myself to
make solaris target buildable.
> 1. The ipc check fails since solaris does not define union semun.
> The unix port code actually defines this type itself on solaris. Doing
> the same thing lets it get configured. Then...
> 2. It looks like BSDINSTALL is not defined properly.
BSDINSTALL is defined in make/host.cfg.in as
BSDINSTALL=@INSTALL@
@INSTALL@ is generated by autoconf's standard macro AC_PROG_INSTALL, which
is widely used in almost any autoconf/automake configured package. In case
there is really something wrong with it, then it must be considered a bug
in autoconf.
I can see a doubious fragment in AC_PROG_INSTALL, which is used when no
appropriate bsd-install is found.
Finally Ralf saw a problem with the find on solaris which I also saw and
fixed.

Patch from Chris Johns <ccj@…>. Comments follow:
Here is a small patch which allows the m68060 to be used. I have not
tested the FP switching stuff which we know is broken. This is taken
against the libchip snapshot but should merge without problems. If you
have any problems please let me know.
There are other smaller issues such as superscalar enable and cache
control which I have not addressed yet. They are different to all other
m68k processors. These can wait IMO.

Added more debug information. There are probably debug prints left in.
Fixed one important bug. After wrapping the RX Descriptors all had the
EOL bit set which resulted in everything slowing down massively.

Changed debug level.
Moved CAM Descriptor types to sonic.h.
CAM memory is now malloced to insure it shares the same upper address bits.
Removed increment of RX interrupt count on TX interrupt path.
Added SONIC_DEBUG_FRAGMENTS and SONIC_DEBUG_CAM conditionals.
Fixed bugs in fragment manipulation. First bug was that the pad overwrote
the last fragment. The second bug was that the link information overwrote
the size of the last fragment.
Rewrote initialization of TDA to simplify it.